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Improving coconut using modern breeding technologies: challenges and opportunities

Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a perennial palm with a wide range of distribution across tropical islands and coastlines. Multitude use of coconut by nature is important in the socio-economic fabric framework among rural smallholders in producing countries. It is a major source of income for 30 mill...

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Main Authors: Arumugam, Thayalan, Md Hatta, M. Asyraf
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Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/101822/
https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/24/3414
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1018222023-06-15T21:21:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/101822/ Improving coconut using modern breeding technologies: challenges and opportunities Arumugam, Thayalan Md Hatta, M. Asyraf Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a perennial palm with a wide range of distribution across tropical islands and coastlines. Multitude use of coconut by nature is important in the socio-economic fabric framework among rural smallholders in producing countries. It is a major source of income for 30 million farmers, while 60 million households rely on the coconut industry directly as farm workers and indirectly through the distribution, marketing, and processing of coconut and coconut-based products. Stagnant production, inadequate planting materials, the effects of climate change, as well as pests and diseases are among the key issues that need to be urgently addressed in the global coconut industry. Biotechnology has revolutionized conventional breeding approaches in creating genetic variation for trait improvement in a shorter period of time. In this review, we highlighted the challenges of current breeding strategies and the potential of biotechnological approaches, such as genomic-assisted breeding, next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based genotyping and genome editing tools in improving the coconut. Also, combining these technologies with high-throughput phenotyping approaches and speed breeding could speed up the rate of genetic gain in coconut breeding to solve problems that have been plaguing the industry for decades. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022-12-07 Article PeerReviewed Arumugam, Thayalan and Md Hatta, M. Asyraf (2022) Improving coconut using modern breeding technologies: challenges and opportunities. Plants, 11 (24). art. no. 3414. pp. 1-22. ISSN 2223-7747 https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/24/3414 10.3390/plants11243414
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description Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a perennial palm with a wide range of distribution across tropical islands and coastlines. Multitude use of coconut by nature is important in the socio-economic fabric framework among rural smallholders in producing countries. It is a major source of income for 30 million farmers, while 60 million households rely on the coconut industry directly as farm workers and indirectly through the distribution, marketing, and processing of coconut and coconut-based products. Stagnant production, inadequate planting materials, the effects of climate change, as well as pests and diseases are among the key issues that need to be urgently addressed in the global coconut industry. Biotechnology has revolutionized conventional breeding approaches in creating genetic variation for trait improvement in a shorter period of time. In this review, we highlighted the challenges of current breeding strategies and the potential of biotechnological approaches, such as genomic-assisted breeding, next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based genotyping and genome editing tools in improving the coconut. Also, combining these technologies with high-throughput phenotyping approaches and speed breeding could speed up the rate of genetic gain in coconut breeding to solve problems that have been plaguing the industry for decades.
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title Improving coconut using modern breeding technologies: challenges and opportunities
title_short Improving coconut using modern breeding technologies: challenges and opportunities
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